The Heroine Of The Colorado Springs Church Shooting

A woman, fresh from a three day fast, in which she prayed to God for guidence in choosing a career path, was thrown right into the path of this mad-dog killer:

Amid deafening cracks of gunfire, smoke-spewing canisters and the flight of thousands of New Life Church members, Jeanne Assam said she suddenly saw the hallways clear and a gunman come through the door.

“I took cover. I identified myself. I engaged him. I took him down,” the 42-year-old former law officer and volunteer church security guard said Monday at a news conference in the Colorado Springs police station.

“I just said, ‘Holy Spirit, be with me.’ I wasn’t even shaking,” Assam said. “I give the credit to God. I say this very humbly. God was with me.”

Assam said she had drawn her weapon countless times in her prior law enforcement career, but she had never shot anyone until Sunday.

“I was very focused. I knew what I had to do,” she said. “It was it just seemed like me, the gunman and God.”

*Chills!*

“I was weak,” she said. “God made me strong. What was going through my mind is how awesome God is.”

*Chills!*

She said she loves law enforcement, but she still doesn’t have her answer about her future.

“I’m going to continue to pray about it,” Assam said.

The Paster called her “a real hero”.

“When the shots were fired, she rushed toward the scene and encountered the attacker there in a hallway. He never got more than 50 feet inside our building,” he said. “There could have been a great loss of life yesterday, and she probably saved over 100 lives.”

Boyd said the gunman had a lot of ammunition and estimated that 40 rounds had been fired inside the church, leaving what looked like a “war scene.”

News reports said he had an “assault rifle”, and two handguns. Given the inability of the media to understand firearms, we might not know for months what he was carrying. But I’ll note this FWIW, say he had a cheap commie SKS.

Bourbannis is a hero in his own right by standing up to the shooter. I would be reluctant to return to that church since the minister is not standing behind Larry Bourbannis. Mr. Boyd is losing his focus by not creating an environment that Bourbannis feels secure that he did the right thing by standing by to help. Too many people wait for someone else to respond. I am proud to know Mr. Bourbannis was in the right frame of mind to respond before more people were killed or injured.

Jeanne Assam is like many people in a way. She is like the Killeen police officers heroes like Alex Henry Morris, Kenneth Samuel Olson, Billy Claude Cooper, Jodie Wilson Fore (first name uncommon today for a man), and Charles Albert Longwell that shot the gunman and it is possible she is like the Frick and Frack of Austin heroes Ramiro Martinez (he said I got him and he would have said in Spanish Lo Consegui!) and Houston McCoy.

Jeremiah Alvin Neitz is like Jeanne Assam, but without the guns. He tried to convert the gunman but the gunman chose to shoot himself. Neitz is part Hispanic due to this great-great-grandmother! Neitz is the distant cousin of Muhammad Ali (I am the greatest! says Ali!)